In early October, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Dr David Julius and Dr. Ardem Patapoutian, for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. The Facial Pain Research Foundation has for the last two years been supporting research into a drug that could stop Trigeminal Neuralgia Pain signals from using this exact receptor
The 7th Annual “Laugh Your Face Off!” comedy show was once again a huge success, raising over $430K for the Facial Pain Research Foundation, and bringing its 7-year total to $2.6M. After going exclusively virtual in 2020, we welcomed back a very small in-person audience this year, while once again live-streaming the event worldwide. As
Are you interested in helping researchers who are trying to learn more about the feasibility of an olive oil dietary intervention to alleviate facial pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia?
The Facial Pain Research Foundation is proud to be a beneficiary of two upcoming virtual 5K's.
“Laugh Your Face Off” is back for a 7th year with the goal of surpassing $3M raised since our inception in 2015. We are currently planning to return to our home at Park West in Chicago on OCTOBER 2ND, but are closely monitoring Covid-19 infection rates and the state of Illinois’ re-opening policies, and will
